Hymn Writer Delivered from Anger

As a young woman, Frances Havergal, author of the hymns, "Take My Life and Let It Be" and "Like a River Glorious," had a very quick ...

Mutiny and Redemption on the "Bounty"

On April 28, 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh, commander of the H.M.S. Bounty, was awakened by men who "seizing me, tied my hands with a cord and threatened ...

Don't Recycle Old Life

In the late 1920s my grandparents married and moved into Grandpa's old family home. It was a clapboard house with a hall down the middle. In the '30s ...

God Plans Our Growth

When I first ran track in prep school, my coach invited me to his home for dinner one night. After the meal, he pulled out a notebook displaying my name ...

Seeds of the Spirit

In the book The Ascent of a Leader, Bruce McNicol and Bill Thrall tell of a woman who has a dream where she wanders into a shop at the mall and finds ...

Untapped Spiritual Resources

Dr. Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ tells this story of a famous oil field called Yates Pool:

During the depression this field was a sheep ranch ...

Marriage: Great Way to Die

In Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, author D. J. Waldie observes that the biggest drawback to living alone is having nobody to forgive. It is not that you ...

Mets' John Olerud Pursues Good Testimony

[When I first became a Christian,] I thought I had to get my life all perfect, and then I could share my Christianity. It never occurred to me God sees ...

God Molds His Servants

If you are going to be used by God, he will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all; they are meant to make you ...

When the Going Gets Tough ...

When things are going good, it's easy to say, "I'm a man of God." When things are going bad, you have to dig down. Sometimes you want ...